Word: allegro
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Ravel: Introduction and Allegro (Laura Newell, harpist, John Wummer, flautist, Ralph McLane, clarinetist, the Stuyvesant String Quartet; Columbia: three sides). Elegant French fancy work, in its best needling to date. The harp and strings have been working the other side of the street, as the New Friends of Rhythm...
...Hungarian March, "Rakoczy"Berlioz *Overture to "der Freischutz" Weber *Fugue a la Gigue Bach-Holst Austrian Peasant Dances Schonherr Wedding March-Schuhplattler-Hog Dance-Zwoaschritt *Suite from "Carmen" Bizet Aragonaise-Intermezzo-Gypsy Dance *Pavane for a Dead Infanta Bizet *Finale, Fourth Symphony Tchaikovsky Allegro con fuoco "Smoke Drift" Peggy Stuart Piano soloist: PEGGY STUART (First performance) *Entrance of the Little Fauns Pierne *First Slavonic Dance Dvorak
Sock v. Buskin Sirs: Technically and in all other respects Readers Offer and Redmond are right [TIME, March 11]. Let TIME'S editors reconsider "Classicist John Milton's language in L'Allegro...
John Milton in L'Allegro is referring to Ben Jonson as a writer of comedy, Jonson's forte. Of Jonson's ten chief works eight are comedies (Every Man in his Humour, Every Man out .of his Humour, Cynthia's Revels, The Poetaster, Volpone, Epicoene, The Alchemist, Bartholomew Fayre); only two are tragedies (Sejanus, Catiline...
...Allegro pictures the cheerful man, who prefers comedy, "Jonson's sock." // Penseroso, on the other hand, pictures the thoughtful man, who prefers tragedy, the buskin. The analogous reference in // Penseroso may be found in lines 97-102: "Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine, Or what (though rare) of later age Ennobled hath the buskined stage...